Sleep partners are too often forgotten

It's estimated that half of the adult population worldwide snores, with or without dangerous interruptions of breathing and related health risks such as cardiovascular disease, obesity, fatigue and concentration problems. Doctoral research at VUB by Dr. Miche De Meyer and her promotor Wolfgang Jacquet shows that snoring can be very stressful for your health and for your relationship, They are making an attempt to define the phenomenon objectively for the first time. Four billion people between the ages of 20 and 80 snore. Between the ages of 30 and 69, there are at least one billion people on suffer from obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA), or intermittent airflow blockage during sleep. In most cases, these disorders go undiagnosed. In Belgium, an estimated 2.65 million people between 18 and 65 are snorers. At least 580,000 of them, the majority men (400,000), suffer from OSA.